Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 4, 1895, Page 4

—————— : OMAHA DALY THE CONDITION OF LABOR. [ == Yor the whole country the condition % ROAFWATER, L DLISTED BVERY MOLN TE ® Patly Dee (Without 8 ifly Dee and Sunday Blx Months P Three Months . . Bunday Nee, One Year.. turday fee, One Youi.. eekly Bee, One Yeut OF FICES, The Hee Hubiding. amerce. une Baiding. B, Tasohuck, seeretary pany, being duly printed duri Totlows: 10,050 Net sales Daity ave This i surance not a v swindlers. More fighting and less talking In Cuba will have most beneficial effects in hast- ening the close of the revolution in progress there, Sensible workingmen will discount to their true worth the Labor day effu- sions of favor-currying politicians in gearch of politieal preferment. Notwithstanding the multiplication of legal holidays, the celebration of Labor any as general throughout the as ever. this year appears to have been United States The letting of the mew prison con- tract looks very much like only an- other step in the gigantic fraud that owes its nception to the penitentiary appraisement bill. What a strange similarity in the sub- stance of the two bids-received by the Board of P'ublic Lands and Buildings in response to Its invitation for pro- posals for the prison contract! DIA the state pay $35,000 to get rid of one prison contractor only to pay another, not much bettel sum to take a tw original unexpived Mosher contrac Time was when an endorsement by the Samosets meant a whole lot in the braves their lodges, local political arena. But the have been driven from thelr quivers have been spent and their knives are rusty from disu Why not turn the entire appropriation made by the legislature for the sup- port of the state’s conviets over to the members of the penitentiary ring pre- cisely as the whole sum appropriated for the purchase of the confracto trumpery was turned over to Dorgan and his honest appraisers? Competent erities profess fo see a good sign in the decreaged demand on was as another large eqr renewal of the of labor Is very much better now than ft was n year ago, ‘There are spots where there has been lttle, it any, im- [ provement and where people ave idle 5| with no prospect of fiuding anything to do, but ut nearly all the centers of industry the demand for Jabor is about cqual to the supply. It has been esti- mated that within the past rar not fae from 1,000,000 people who were un- employed during the period of ind trinl depression have been put to work, while fn the sanie time wages have been cousiderably incrensed. It is hupossi- le, of course, to judge with any de- gree of aceurncy how many people in i the country ave still idle. Unque ably the number is consideral posed chiefly of common laborers. there Is no doubt that for the country the condition of labor is better wow than at any time since the begin- ning of the industrial depression more than two yemrs ago. It is, however, still below the standard of 1801 and 1802, especially the latter ye which was extraordinary in the prosperity it brought to all classes of our people nd in the development of our domestic and foreign trade. The Cleveland World of last Sunday printed special reports from most of the industrial centers relating to the 1abor conditions, and only in a few cases were there reports not of a very grati ng character. The most marked ac tivity is in the fron industry, but in some of the large cities, notably New York, Brooklyn and Chicago, there is a sreat deal of activity in the building trades. The report from Pittsburg sald: “When one compaves the situa- tion of today with that of one year ago he s startled by the contrast.” IProm Cncinnat “Compared with a twelyemonth since, the industrial pros- perity of fhe present is far in excess of the anticipations of the most san- guine.” Irom Buffalo it was reported that the outlook for the future is bette than it has been in two or three year reported the labor situation jmproving and encouraging, and there were cheering reports from Providence and Hartford. It is shown also that quite generally the working people are not dissatistied with the wages they are getting, though this is not universally the case. At Fall River a strike for incrense of wages is threatened and there is unrest at some other points, but there does not appear to be any great danger of serious labor troubles this ye It would manifestly be most unwise for labor anywhere to precipitate a con- flict at this time, while the process of industrial and business revival is going on, and there is still some uncertainty and lack of confidence rding the future. Favorable as are the indica- tions that Dbetter times have come to stay the realization of this in no small degree depends upon the maintenance of peaceful relations between employers and employed. Agitation and distarb- ance in the labor market would be very likely to check improvement, and no in- telligent wage worker can desire this. " | The outlook is most promising if peace prevail, and there is reason to believe that there will be no general or serious disturban entire SOME AUG STATISTICS. It must be rather discouraging to the {rensury officials to have their estimates of receipts from month to month uni- formly discredited by results. This has been the rule during the present ad- ministration, until those interested in the financial condition of the treasury have ceased to place any confidence the treasury for small motes to move | Whatever in the estimates of the offi- the erops. the The reason for this is that banks have the pelled to call on the treasur ment their supplies. gency without assistance. Emperor William knows a thing or two hiinself. He instituted a searching Inquiry and formed a judgment on the attitude of his people toward Sedan day, and then he sat down and wrote & congratulatory message for DPrince Bismarck. Thus the emperor pursues hls policy of conciliation with Bismarck and arrays on his side almost all the friends of his grandfather's great min- Ister. Beginning Mounday and lasting for two weeks Omaha will - present a greater variety of attractions and amusements than ever before i a like period. There will be something new every day. [People of all grades may Indulge their tastes for entertainment. With fair weather the railroads will not be able to handle the throngs that will be attracted to the city. The com- Ing two weeks promise to be the great- est in Omaha's show-giving annals. According to the latest advices from the Orient, the controversy in which. Japan and Russin are engaged must end in war sooner or later. should not be very pleasant informa tion for those nations that are just re- storing the war between those countries Be- fore hostilities are declared by either some of the powers that stepped in to say when the war Japan or Russia demands on China had reached a limi will doubtless have something to say In the matter. —_— A year ago the Manufacturers and Consumers association made an exhibi; at the state fair which was little less Noth- than a revelation to the people. fng of the kind had ever been at. tempted and visitors at the fair saw for the first time evidences of the grea strides Nebraska has made s a manu- facturing state. Prolific in a grea variety of raw materials, Nebraska is naturally destined to become a manu- facturing state, the problem of cheaper Tow- ever, the manufacturers’ exhibit at the approaching state fair will convince any skeptic of the importance of Nebraska fuel alone having to be solved. “Wsaufactures today. necessary small notes in their reserve, and are’not com- to aug- The banks must be stronger it they can meet this emer- cinls, The statement for August tells the same story that has been repeated for months and which there is every veason to expect will continue to be repeated until provision is made for raising more revenue. There was a CTHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, S strong presidential possibility and this would not suit Mr. Brice If, as has | been alleged, he desires to get into that Jist himself. What the senator is most solicitous about in this eampaign s the politieal complexion of the next legislature, which will choose a suc- | cessor to him in the United States senate. If he can make the leglslature democratic ft will be a personnl triumph, none of the glory of which wilt be shared by anybody else, and Mr. Brice would receive all the political profit aceruing. Such a result would very decidedly increase his prestige and give him warrant for aspiring to the nomination of his party for: the presi- dency. As he has more money than any one who has been mentioned as a possi- ble candidate this, also, is a strong point in bis favor. It is said to be al- ready apparent that Senator Brice is to receive all the help which the Cleve- tand administration can give him and an active removal of republican post- masters and other federal offivials in Ohio may be expected. & The republicans, however, are alive to the plans of Brice and un doubtedly will be fully prepared to moet him at every point. General Bush- nell, the republican candidate for gov por, is abundantly able to take care of his campaign against Campbell, and it is no less certain t Foraker, who wants to go to the United States senate, ake care of the fight for the legi wgainst Brice. The advantage with the republicans, because they a well organized and harmonious. Whs ever dissension existed before the state convention has disappeared and the leaders are working shou'der to shoulder for the common caus The factional division in the democratic ranks, how- ever, remdins, and nobody believes that all of the free silver democrats can be induced fo stultify themselyes by sup- porting the Brice ticket and platform and thereby in effect endorsing the Cleveland administration. fully ean Iature SCHOOL BOARD ECONOMICS. The Board of Education ente its fiscal year with an overlap of nearly $37.000. The amount of school arrants outstanding on July 1 was $58,787. as against $22,122 of eash in the treasur, The cash in the tre draws inte at ihe rate of 2 pe per amnum. Outstanding deaw 7 per cent. That counts 5 per cent against the school fund for ever) dollar of cash kept in the treasur The cconomy of Kkeeping $22000 of sh in the treasury when there are 000 of warrants to be redeemed is not perceptible to the naked e In the face of the colossal overlap and a constantly decreasing income, the board continues to ies and to pay extrayagant people who, under ordinary conditions, could not earn in private employment half the amount paid them on the pub- lic pay roll. Take, for example, the superintendent of buildings, whose salary has just been raised from $1 to $150 per month. The man is an ordinary carpenter, who never earned more than $3 a at his teade in boom times and would be giad fo work 50 a day in building L. Suppose the board had reduced 1 lary to $100 a month nstead of rais- it to $130 per month, would he resigned? Would he have re- even if it had been reduced a month year in and year out? this raise made this time? Because Colonel Akin, president of the board, is a candidate for office, and other members of the dark-'antern com- bine that runs the board also have po- litical axes to grind and the superin- tendent of buildings is said to be a good ward politician. Another sample of * school board economics is the increase in the pay given to the professor of manual train- ing to $1,500 a ye Prof. Wigman was employed for years as a wood turner upon se have signed what may be present one. deficit, not so large as for the preceding month, but still a deficit that promises, if the same rate be maintained during the remaining months of the fiscal year, to make the total for the year not much less than $50,000,000. figures given there jvas a slight in- crease in the August receipts from cus- toms duties, but this was everbalanced by the decrease in internal revenue and the receipts from miscellaneous sources, thus showing that while imports are growing the revival of business is not being felt by the treasury as expected. August is one of the best months in the year, ordinarily, for customs re- ceipts, but it appears that experience under the former tariff is no guide to looked for under the The deficit for the two months of the current fiscal year is a. little over $13,000,000. The monthly de- ficit for the remainder of the year will not be at this rate, but there i son to doubt there will be a monthly deficit, unless congress very early in the session shall make provision for more revenue, which is not at all probable. The statistics of imports for August at New: York show that foreign manu- facturers are still pouring goods into According to the no rea- This nmercial relations with China and Japan, which were interrupted by the American market at a rate far in excess of last year. The value of im- ports at New York last month was nearly $2,000,000 greater than for the corresponding month of 1804, and sin January 1 the excess over the first seven months of last year is $58,000,000. Under such circumstances it is not sur- prising that gold is being exported and that the bond syndicate finds it neces- sary every few days to send gold to the treasury in order to maintaln the re- serve. t t THE OHIO CAMPAIGN. Both parties in Ohlo are getting ready to push the campaign with vigor and the - |indications are that it will be interest- ing when the fight is fully on, Senator t | Brice is still the conspicuous figure on the democratic side and he intends to t |remain so. His money will provide the sinews of war and while Campbell stands as the party standard bearer the real leader is Brice. It is not probable that the senator has the slightest expectation that Campbell will be elected and it is quite possible that he does not wish him to be. The elec- tion of Campbell might make him a in the Union Pacific shops at wages ranging from $2.25 to $275 a day. When he worked six days a week he earned $15, or at the rate of $G5 per month. If given employment steadily the best he could do was to earn §750 for twelve months work, six days a week. Now he works five days a week, six hours a day, and on'y ten months of*the year, and gets §1,500. The Bee always has believed that the laborer is worthy of his hire. Surely Mr. Wig- man is worth no more than the best man at his trade, and if he is favored with short hours and long vacations he should be eontent with full artisan's pay. It is perfectly natural for any man to take all he can get. The ques- tion is, Why should other working men who do twice the work for half the pay, be taxed to make up the excessive salaries of political favorites? A TRAVELING MAN ONSILVER. Few works convey In so small a com- pass as clear and comprehensive a view of the money problem as Mr. H. Kar- berg's “A Traveling Man on the Finan- clal Question,” in which the whole field is historically and scientifically re- viewed, and that in language that will not be easily misunderstood. In place of pictorials and diagrams, Mr. Karberg draws upon an ample fund of stubborn facts and authentic figures, citing from the best American and foreign author- ities and appealing to good ordinary horse sense for the conclusions they indicate. That the volume of money does not affect the price of products the author shows by citing as an ex- ample the fact that while France has a pér capita circulation of $37 and Eng- land only $19, there is no difference between prices in general in these coun- tries. The United States, on the other hand, has but $24 per capita, and yet prices here are considerably higher than in France. Mr. Karberg wisely avoids all side issues, such as “the crime of '73” “unit of value” and '“money of ultimate redemption,” concentrating his efforts in showing that the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 by the United States alone would be suicidal. Every prospective visitor to the state fair can readily learn what the railroad fare 1s to and from Omaha, but be can- not learn Just what a two days’, & three dags’ or.a week's visit to the state fair will cost him. The Commercial ol committee on public comfort showld, by gl means publish reliable estinntas of the cost of first and second eliss living in Omaha dur- ing fair and Pestival week, invite all those having thoms to rent to list them at the club fBbins and post rate cards of all hotely, " hoarding houses und restaurants Every man in Nebraska could then foruya very correct estimate of the cost of a trip. to Omaba, In hun- dreds of casos, the approximate cost must be deteriined In advance or the parties will fot attend the fair. The estimates made must be upon good authority, that everybody may have confidence in them. The importanc of this subject must not be under- estimated. Some people labor under the delusion that the newspaper should be the ve- icle for anonymous complaints about nuisances of one kind or another which call for abatement by some depariment of government. Apparently afraid to take present matter direct to the proper city officials, they ask the newspaper to undertake the responsibility upon their representations and without even dis- closing their identity. 'T'his is an alto- gether wrong idea of the function of the pr Complaints of the nature r ferred to should be made to the officers whose duty it is to remedy the abuses, and only in case the officer neglects or refuses to perform his duty does it be come a subject for communication to the newspapers, and in every instance the name of the complainant is essent an evidence of good faith, if not for pub- lication, The question is, Who put up the two 000 certified checks for the bidders for the new prison contract? Where Cin Shine. nnati We suggest that con wirer. ress abolish the Agri- ultural aepartiment, and, In order that a may be created in which Mr. Morton can still b2 ussful in his present line, let the office of as ptroller of the cur- rency be created and given to him. Under the direction of Mr. Hckels he could continue his present work of enlightening the public n the monstary question il 55 Decreasing « Democrat. The decrease in the treasury deficit is picasing news for the country. in August it was only $3,760,000, as compared with $9,500,- 000 in Jul The shrinkage is due to a growth in customs receipts, and as this is coused by the general improvement in busi s likely to continue. Internal revenue rec.ipts are small, but the s causes the growth in customs must have a like effect here also. The long xfiected disappearance of the deficits may be rrear at hand. i Wh the Trouble Lies. Philagelphia Record, Here is a bit of-testimony that is especially significant. It is the admission of the great prohibitionist, Neal Dow of Maine: “‘We have been at work since 1851 trying to hav ths Maine law properly enforced,” says the vencrable venerated New ~Englander. “but w t #uccecded yet; for we have been h oft politielans, who care nothing for the welfare of the state or na- tion, but 3 0 quest of offices of profit or hon ct'is that the fault The Deficit. The Royalisnt Bluff. Cinelnnath A royalist agent from Honolulu, passing through Omaha cn his way to Washington, has been interviewed. It is. said he bears a formal request that the United States rein- state tha monarchy in th: Hiwaiian islands and “‘avoid inevilable bloodsh his “hluft” will not have dire effect at this date. The intimation that the natives are armed, and will make trouble if the queen is not re- storsd to her rotten throne, ought to be more dangerous to Liliuokalani and her friends and advisers than to-the Dole government. If she is fooling with firearms egain she should be shipped to some other country. Sho ought to convider herself the luckiest woman in th: world to have her head on her shoulders today i AR Cost of Holding Cuba, Chicago Tribune. 1t is stated in a dispatch from Madrid that the war in Cuba thus far has cost $20,000,000 This is exclusive of the forced contributions the sugar and coffee planters have had to pay to the inwurgents for carrying on the war or for buying war material, ranging from $25,000 to $60,000 per planter. It will be cheaper in th> end for the planters if the insurgents are successful, If Spain defeats the latter the former will be substantially ruined under the burden of taxailon which will be levied by the Spanish governmenk The Spanish treasury is already bankrupt and the deficit each year was growing larger ore the war broke out. 1f the prezent revolution shall continue as loug as the last one Spain will be plunged into a financial chaos. A Prospective Car Famine. 5 Kansas City Journal. A prominent railroad official is quoted as saying that the freight car equipm-nt of the wostern roads will be totally inzdequate for moving the immense corn crop this year, Such an anfouncement is' not sur;rising. A freight car famine Is no new exverience for western shippers. Kansas farmers have more than once had to wait impatiently till the roads could hendle their grain. In fact, a full crop in this part of the country is such an enormous thing that any ordinary provi- sion for transportation Is insufficient. And possibly it is just as well that cars are not too plentiful. The crops are forced Into market too fast as it is for the good of the producer. The over abundant supply ex- ceeds the temporary demand and demoraliza- tion of prices unavoldably results. A car famine, although unsatisfactory both to the shipper and the rallroads, may not improbebly be a blessing in disguise. e Demand for Uniform Laws. Indianapolis Journal, The need of uniform divorce and marriage laws in the United States is generally under- stood and acknowledged, but the great varla- tion In other laws'Is less commonly known. The State Boards 6f Commissioners to pro- mote uniformity of statutes have other im- portant matters to consider. Great annoy- ance and inconvepiente are caused by the difference of laws In the various states re- lating to the execution and acknowledg- ment of deeds and the acknowledgment and probate of wills. ~ Hardly two states have precisely the same regulations in these mal ters, and a vast deal dq! unnecessary red tape 18, therefore, involved In the transaction of such busines: Another peculiar irregularity is in welights and measures, nearly every state having a standard of its own. Wheat is the only thing which requires the same number of pounds o the legal bushel in all the states. ~The importance of uniformity in laws affecting business must be generally ad- mitted. Uniformity of marriage and divorce laws has moral bearing, and with these two interests to consider the commission h 4 responsible weork. The commissioners Tepresent twenty states. 1808, TWO KINDS OF TEMPERATURE, Weather Turean Proposes to Adopt « m New System of Report NEW YORK, Sept. S.—~Prof. Willls L. Moore, the chief of the United States weather bureau, stopped in this city on his way to Washington a vislt to Weather Forecaster Dunn and had a long consultation with him, the outefme of which will be that in the near future an important addition will be made to the daily charts that are fssued from tne weather bureau in this cily. These charts, in ad- dition to showiug the air temperature as has been the custom for years, will also show the sensible temperature, This government Is the first to adopt sensi- ble temperature reports, and they will not only be of great benefit to the medical pro- fession, but also the public generally, Hx- actly when the scnsible temperature roports will be made public and put in full opera- tion Is not known, but they will be iszued daily, the sane as the air tempera- turo reporls, as soon as possible. This contemplated new departure will be of great by fit to those who can never reconcile their hodily temporatnres with the reports of the degrees of heat and eold as sent out by the weather bureau. Prof. Moore stated that what the weather bureau has been doing for years has been to report vy the air temperature. This has heen for the use of boards of trade for the pur- pose of showing the influence of temperature on plant life. ‘The real temperature, however, which animal 1ife feels is very different,” sald Mr. Moore. “We cail this the seusible tempera- turc. Hereafter when a man looke at his dry bulb thermometer and finds the air tem- perature 95 degrees he needs only turn to his wet bulb thermometer to find that the sensible temperature may only be 85 de- grees, and he can be just that warm with- out leiting his imagination help to make Wim more miserable, The sensible tempera- ture takes in the humidity also. Persons who complain that they were never o warm befors may find uon an examination of the sensible temperature that it is actually cooler by several degrees than It was the day previous.” SENATOR ALL MONTANA. Delivers the Labor Dny Address Butte nnd Talks About Si1 BUTTE, Mcnt., Sept. 3.—Senator Willlam V. Allen of Nebraska delivered the Labor day oration in Butte yesierday. On the silver question he said: “I balleve the remonetiz tion of silver not occur before the cam- paign of 1900. The people of the east believe that the tariff question is the greatest issue and that the Wilson bill is sponsor for the in- lustrial depression and financial flls and it is going to take another republican adminis- tration to teach them that this argument is false. If the silver sentiment of the Unltel S'ates could be united for one man a free silver president could be elected, but it is very doubtful if anything of that k'nd will occur. The disposition to put a strictly sil- ver party in the field is confinel to the nining states and I am very dcubtful of the wizdom of the movement.” Senator Allen said he expee'nl populiste principles to win in 1900, but could not say under what party name. MAY DEVELOP 'Y SCANDAL. Colorado State Officinls Aecused of Ace ing Bribes. TRINIDAD, Colo., Sept. 3.—Senor Barela left th's morning for Colorado Springs, being called there in the interest of the threa Me cans in fail there charged with cruelty (o animais and participation in the bull fight at Glllett on Angust 24. Mr. Barela is the Mexi- can consul for this district and will make a thorough Investigation of the whole matter and it is likely that some very sensa ticnal developments may be the result. It Is alleged that the management of the bu'l figh had cecured permission from all the state officers, including the governor and attorney kS as well as the local county officers. Tt is alleged that cerlain officials rec:ived and accepted special favors and a remuneration from the management for the permission of having the fight take place. No pains will be spared in get'ing at the full facts in the atter and every cffort will be made to have the three Mexicins now imprisoned at Colo- rado' Springs released, TAX COLLECTOR HAS NO BLANKS. Right to Pull O Prize Fights to De Tested In a Novel W DALLAS, Sept. 3.—Yesterday the Dallas Athletio club tendered Collector Jacoby $500 for license to pull oft the Clark-Cavanaugh fight. Jacoby explained that he would very willingly make out the license, but he had no biank; no blank had ever been printed for that kind of lic:nse. He then turned to the law, which ‘n substance says: That if any collector hsall give a manuscript or any other species of receipt for taxes, excent the regular blank furnished by the comptroller, such collector shall be guilty of a misde: meanor and on conviction fined from $100 to $500, and may be dismissed from office. An on will be at once file® compelling oby to issue the license according to law. This will be carried through the courts as a test cas: affecting the Corbell-Fitzsimmons contest on October 3. Death of nn Arizona Pionecer. PRESCOTT, Ariz, Sept. 3.—Judge Henry F. Fluedy, who came to Arizona with the first g2t of territorial officers in 1863, died here last night of a nervous disease. Judge Fluedy served as secretary of the territory and also as acting governor during the early history of Arizona. The quaiut old log Nouse in which he lived so long and in which he died was an object of Interest to all *visitors to Prescott, in addition to serv- ing as the gubernaforial mansions and cffices for the territorial officials during the early period of Arizona's history. It also served as a sort of fort and safe place of re- treat during the days when the Apaches held sway over this section. Judge Fluedy came hero from Brooklyn, N. Y., where his rela- tives still reside. He was over 80 years old. Wants Chinese Rioters Punished. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.—The Baptist Ministers’ union of San Franclsco has for- warded to Secretary Olney a memorial in which he is urged to endeavor to secure the appointment of a commission to investigate tho recent missionary rlots in China. The union insists that an indemnity for the loss of life and property 1s not sufficient, and demands that the gullty persons, of whatever rank or station, be speedily punished. Want Their Money Returned. LIBERTY, Mo., Scpt. 3.—The news of the finding of Dr. Fraker at Tower, Minn., created considerable excitement here. At- torreys for the insurance companies served notice on the Commercial bank, Probate Judge Fowler and on the clerk of Judge Livcoln, executor of Fraker's will, that they would apply for an injunction before United States Judge Foster, enjoining them from paying out any money. Judge Lincoln is in Colorado, —— COripple Creek Rond Opened to Traflic, DENVER, Sept. 3.—0Officials of the Florence & Cripple Creek rallroad, which has been closed to traffic over a month on account of the damage done by floods, gave out the in- formation today that the road will be opened tomorrow. As there s a lirge amount of trelght to be handled no passenger trains will be run until Friday. paotdbehis - A Wrecked Steamer Burned. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.—Fire has de- stroyed the last hope of recovering any of the valuable cargo of the steamer Bawnmore, which went ashore on the Oregon coast last Wednesda; The merchandise in the hold has been burning for three days and the ship is said to be a total loss. from Boston, and paid | | sador Ba THE PASSING SHOW, After yachting comes fool ball, It's & dull season the country hasn't something to kick About. The chasm between Now York and Chicago is widening. The latter refused to shake with the former, “Tom Reed wears no man's collar,” ex- claims the Boston Globe, Because they are mighty few whose collars would button on T B The fact that the earthquake took place in New York Sunday night fs significant Jersey lightning I8 no small shakes when working. The poiltieal signs on the bourbon side of Kentucky are chicfly signs of distress. The local specific for current ills is stumped by the Aistemper. Mount Tacoma s troubled. At various points 1t s pufing harder than a eyeler on a stiff grade. Smoke and steam are belching through glacler crevices. Tacomans are alarmed, while the denizens of Seatt'e chuckle gleefully The Bavard family has developed an ad mirable grip on public office, Some members of the family have had a pull on the treasury for a century. The grandfather of Ambas yard was a delegate to the federal congress in 1796, A statement sworn to at Hamilton, 0., Is to the effect that Jim Hilly of that place is 50 tormented with spirits that he eannot sleep. In New York things are reversed on Sundays—the Jim Hillys ave tormented be cause they can’t get the spirits, cretary Morton insistes that all packages | of meat designed for exportation shall be | properly marked so as not to deceive the hungry forelgner. Meanwhile the native is at liberty to contract dyspepsia or other ills without government interference. Dees It pay to attract conventions to a Boston _answers in the afiirmative ights emplar convention cost the ,000, and a moderate estimate places the amount spent by the visiting knights in the city at $750,000. A return of $10 for every $1 put out is pretty fair interest on the investment. The phoenixed town of Hinckley, Minn., oheerved on last Sunday the first’ anniver. sary of the besom of flime which practi cally swept the city out of existence ana sent many souls into eternity orrowful and all but crushing as was the ity to the survivors, they went to work and rebuilt the city and exhibited that indomitable spirit that disaster cannot conquer. Among the new members of the English House of Commons is the Indian, Bhownagree, who has had an unusual career. He is the son of a Bombay merchant, and has been a lawyer and an editor in England and a juige in India. He represents Bethnal-Green, Lon- don, tn Parlisment, and is the only cne of his race In the house. His colleagues refer ‘o him, therefore, jocosely, as the ‘‘member for India.” Chicago Tribune (rep): Nobody will be surprised if Pennsylvania supports Quay in the convention. It has been supporting him and his family for a great many years. Washington Post (ind. rep.): Mr. Quay not only got what he went after, but he saved hig party from a severe split. The cther fellows got what tho littie boy shot at. Indianapolis Journal (rep.): Sehurz and Quay, arm in arm, in the front rank of the civil service procession, would be a spectacle for gods and men. The millennium would be a thousand years nearer thereafter. Globe-Democrat (rep): Senator Quay is not an ideal republican statesman, but he is so much better than the average demo- cratic statesman that the country can afford to view him with an indulgent New Yory Sun (dem.): As matters stand this morning there is no cne man in the United States whose voice will be more potent in the wigwam wherein is to be made the next presidential ticket of the republicans. Indianapolis News (ind.): It is a good deal to have a republican convention in Pennsyl- vania, under the leadership of Senator Quay, declare itselt in favor of civil sery form and honest moaey. If now Quay turn out to be another Tilden the country will have much to be thankful for. New York World (dem.): The fight against Quay pretended to ba one of principle and patriotism. It proves to haye been merely a struggle of rival bosses for supremacy. Quay won by a dicker, and as soon as his victory was accomplished all men opposed to him made haste to reconc'le themselves. Minneapolis -Journal (rep.): Senator Quay is a masterful tactician. He not only calmed the troubled waters at Harrisburg, but con- ducted them into his own conduit, and abso- lutely controlled the situation, Gilkeson and Hastings submitting without 'a plaint, and ©) the lions' den was transformed into a dove cote. Buffalo Express (rep.): As matters stand, the republican parly is ready to go in and whack the common enemy. It does not want to be obliged to turn half of its men around to keep down a resurrected ghost stalking along behind it. If the Pennsylvanians wish to cling to Quay, that is their business. But 16t them abandon any ambition to folst him upon the national party. Chicago ‘Record (ind): The victory that has been won by Matthew Stanley Quay in Pennsylvania is extraordinary. Shorn of po- litical patronage, spurned and deserted by his former associates and political partners, de- prived of all the more effective weapons with which political battles are fought and won, he has yet wrested victory from the hands 81 the man the of s | #ood it th edar Ra taxing church property. gospel in Des Moines s to be gauged by the plety usually on exhibition there would not the taxa- city, It there is any proper relation ba tween the volume of piety and the amoffnd be much tion pec of cl Des Maines Capital: after the nomination, called attention to th fact that one holding such a position as thal nkins occupies could not be a raitrond intimating need nomination Donbtless it i the latter view of the ease which influenced tate in mak- Mr. commissioner, that aftec that the ing De ot 1 by small grain ho Muc! will Sioux City Times pretend lemocr vote men ble - iy TOWA PRESS COMMENT, oux City Journa campalgn a ehort one campalgn over months, tump speaking will politics. be enough. y are comprossed w pids Gazette: spapers are discussing the revenue obtained of church property in 1y from that hurch property The Capital, at the same time the incligibility referred to t so Inconsequential a made as Marshalltown newspapors throughout the light of the Leader's eriticisms. °s Moines Leader: owa will stand serlous losses this reason of their over-confllence In many parts of the state, ried, they harvested and shocked they could throsh wtack. The hoof it is molded badly, and be very severe in somo cases. It is all nonse: considerable the that any en understand the matter thoros It is true the democratic pla on t geth would _be form had been silent of I as | a ness Somerv! how Bo: anything that doesn't agree with physician told him. IR that “wh Detroit you B I th Indjanapolls Journal: The Thin One—T'd just like to see one of those bicycle fiends Te The Plump One—No fear of that, dear. There would be too much risk of & punc- his point of resubmission er projer that it far better if the on thus democratic iquor legislation, ossiblo the part avolding tike lquor legis! MERRY lle Journal: children should be brought up n Journal: hould never you, it rule, Maria,” he ere would you be Record: hy, T didn't e acquainted with old Moneyw fow long have you k ‘About three years at 10 per Free Press: Hinks epend your vacation? nks—I didn’t spend it. My, wife ought 1'd better save something to run over me. tured tire. New York Herald: was the unde enemy run. " tQuite likely.” 1 erstand.” in Where The republican managers in Towa ure dead right In thoir decision to make The people de- a ‘There s no excuse for dragging A few woeks 1t s There will be a higher dogres of publie interest in the eampaign activities i a short perfod. In Des Moines the subject of 1t the amount of Just Some of the farmers yoar it Is their but did mot put it into stacks, taking the chance that the wo. favorable and that her would be from raius of the lust ten days have done great damage to the grain shocks. loss, so to number ts in the next lowa legislature for resubmission of a prohibitory aw obody believes any such thing. S It is alto- should be silent. plat- the whole matter as far an complications which tho greatest obstacle in the way of busl- ear-old bachelor is seldom at a loss in giving advice about take d always followed narked to his wife, and daughter spent everything else I had, and “Yes, slr, my father a soldier, and mmny's the time he mude ay your father was quite lucky that the enemy didn’t catch him.” Washington Star: said Farmer Corntossel,” as he down his paper. “What is?" inquired his wife, ‘“Ter see s0 many first class patriots thet don’t gt ter be nothin' high postmasters.” biographer, as Siftings: Binx for the reason that he work upon’ his life Tndianapolis Jour friend,"” thou th ur began ever oc exhorter, eht ed to you earth is but a vale “What? s i boy, 1 the Pw nevah.' * BLISS AND BILLS. Atlanta Constitution, love were always rosy And knew no mortal ills, And never went to pay the rent, Or stormed at grocery bills Then would the world go singing, If love were alwa A We hear the t And heaven would kiss the hilly, '8 TOSY, And paid no grocery bilist VACATION'S END. Somerville Journal. long vacation's over, and e children must com: teachers are all read had good t me: as a rule, vet they don't look happy, on The opening day of school. nd who can really blame them? We all have felt the same. hell riiging when We hate to leave the game. ‘We are just like the chil Ir-n, 1, H, ‘And, though the weather's cool ‘s always hot and hateful, on The opening day of £:njol. owever long the play-time, We seldom welcome work. by he truth Is, man by nature is As lazy as a Turk. ol this summor, And though a grown-up pupil Doesn't want to be a fool, He seldom looks delighted, on The opening day of school! of his enemies and now assumes the position of dictator of his party In a state of leading importance in national conventions. t's r'al'y discours Ia r'n fourth class Binx calls his doctor his is at “My joyous young the and Get Ready For School— Comb his hair—wash him up—and the teacher won't know him—but put him into | new suit of clothes and his own mother won't know him—First impressions are always the best—get the teacher stuck Double $2.50 and $3.00. on your boy the first thing and h2’l learn lots faster —If he's neatly dressed he ought to have aneat two-piece school suit in Brown or Gray Mixed Breasted Cassimere or Che? viot for 6 to 14 year old boys at $2,00 Surely you can stand that. A Reefer for chilly morn- ngs, 3 to 8 vears, blue, tan, red, brown, plain or mixed colors, all wool cheviots, flannels or kerseys, $4, $5 and §6. Maybe knee pants will be all he needs—35¢, 50c? 75¢, $1.00 for special va'ues, in mixed and plain co'ored cassimeres, worsteds and cheviots, ages 4 to 15 years, Browning,King & Co S W Cor 15th andDoug as Sts, will